I especially love how they are panicked about China "overproducing" (in quotation marks of course because what they are complaining about has nothing to do with to the actual economic concept of a crisis of overproduction) stuff like solar panels, EVs, steel, etc.

I would really love to ask these people just some basic questions and see just what bullshit cope they can come up with. Like: I'm sorry but wasn't it what you told us when you sold us on capitalism that competition would result in higher efficiency and lower prices and that would be good for us?

Didn't you teach us in econ 101 that this is just the law of supply and demand in action? According to the dogma of market economics that you have been drilling into our heads since we were in elementary school China is merely providing a supply to fulfill our demand, and doing so more efficiently than the competition - so what's the matter, i thought a rising tide lifts all boats?

I thought having winners and losers is good for everyone because it incentivizes innovation and boosts productivity? Shouldn't you be celebrating this as a triumph of the market? Isn't getting more and more stuff for less and less money the whole point of progress according to the consumerist world view that you are constantly trying to get us to buy into?

And why in the world would you announce that you want to "slow down China’s rate of innovation”? Why don't you just wait for the innovations to trickle down to you through the free trade you love so much? And if the "market dynamic isn't playing in your favor" why are you trying to rig the game and change the rules instead of just getting better at competing?

And the million dollar question: if China's economic model is more efficient than yours why don't you just adopt it?

Glorious lib tears...remember when they used to say communism is inefficient, bureaucratic, blah blah blah?

US trade representative Katherine Tai said... “I think what we see in terms of the challenge that we have from China is… the ability for our firms to be able to survive in competition with a very effective economic system,” Tai said in response to a question from Euractiv.

She described China as a system “that we’ve articulated as being not market-based, as being fundamentally nurtured differently, against which a market-based system like ours is going to have trouble competing against and surviving”.

“Unless we figure out a different way to defend the way our economies work, we know what’s going to happen,” she said, “and it’s going to have significantly damaging economic and political outcomes for our systems”.

If China is producing wAy tOo maNy soLaR pAneLs, you should say "thank you for the help with our transition to clean energy" and then buy and install some tasty, inexpensive solar panels from China! Bourgeoisoomers are always so entitled. "But what about my oil companies? Wah! Wah!" My dudes, you are overcomplicating things!

Let it die, then!